UID:
almahu_9949385880902882
Format:
1 online resource (ix, 162 pages) :
,
illustrations, maps.
ISBN:
9780429343155
,
0429343159
,
9781000055696
,
1000055698
,
9781000055719
,
100005571X
,
9781000024401
,
1000024407
Series Statement:
Mircrohistories
Content:
"This book explores the life and death of Magnús Hj. Magnússon through his diary, poetry and other writing, showing how best to use the methods of microhistory to address complicated historical situations. Highlighting how the historiographical development of modern scholarship has shaped scholars' ideas about egodocuments and microhistory around the world, the book is of great use and interest to scholars of microhistory, social and cultural modern history, literary theory, anthropology and ethnology" --
Note:
I. The Normal exceptions and Stories from the People -- 1. Creating a Story -- 2. Real People and Fictional Ones -- 3. The Individual and Microhistory -- 4. The Normal Exception -- 5. The Book -- II. Emotional Communities in the Life and Death of Magnús Hj. Magnússon -- 1. In Hostile Waters -- 2. A Harsh Life on the Farm of Hestur -- 3. Courtship -- 4. Matters of Life and Death -- 5. Matthildur's Death and the Poets -- 6. Saved by the Salvation Army? -- 7. Rape: Wrongful Ruling? -- 8. The High Court -- 9. Two Contrasting Arguments -- New Sources -- 10. Days of Hope and Fear -- 11. Eternal Life -- III. In the Company of Few -- 1. A Pointillist Portrait of a Person -- 2. The Conceptual Framework of Sex and Sexuality -- 3. Microhistory, Material Culture and Death -- 4. Fiction and Microhistory.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Sigurður G. Magnússon. Emotional experience and microhistory New York : Routledge, 2020. ISBN 9780367359966
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
;
Electronic books.
;
Biographies.
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429343155
